Topological analysis of foams and tetrahedral structures

Advanced Engineering Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 169-176

  Frenkel, Gad ^a   Blumenfeld, Raphael ^a,b   King, Peter R ^a   Blunt, Martin J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC CALCULATIONS; GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES; HOMEOMORPHIC; PLATEAU BORDERS; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; TETRAHEDRAL STRUCTURES; TOPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGICAL PROPERTIES; UNIFIED METHODS; VORONOI FOAMS; VORONOI TESSELLATIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 63049088830     PISSN: 14381656     EISSN: 15272648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adem.200800090     Document Type: Article

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